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Word: tossings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown won the opening toss and elected to kick off, defending the East goal. Harvard's Tim Perry scooped up a botched kickoff at the 25 yard-line and brought it up to the 28. Wingback Bob Glatz carried for a short gain on first down, before the frequently penalized Crimson was set back 5 yards for having an illegal receiver downfield...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Don't It Make Those Brown Guys Blue | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...charity. Mortimer's brother Teddy thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. And as if those three weren't enough, Mortimer's estranged brother Jonathan, an international criminal and Boris Karloff lookalike who still bears a childhood grudge against Mortimer, comes home just in time to make more mischief. Toss in Jonathan's sniveling sidekick Dr. Einstein, a mad (of course) and incompetent plastic surgeon, and some (fortunately) clueless cops, and the chaos is complete...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Lace | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...toss-right and was supposed to go out wide," Glatz said. "It happened so fast. I didn't happen to see a hole on the outside because the hole was inside. The defense overran the play and the hole was big. I was so surprised...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Modest Responses to a Glorious Day | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Last week the owners won the toss and elected to kick the heart out of the players. Twenty-four futile days into their strike, the National Football League's itchy regulars surrendered en masse, only to be apprised at the door that they had just missed the weekly deadline for returning. If they wished to work the rest of the week at training-camp wages ($500 to $750), they were welcome to hang around their old practice fields, as long as they stayed out from under foot while the replacements prepared for a third league game. Whether this amounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Line Crumbles | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Dartmouth won the toss and elected to receive. Bruce Jacob took advantage of a brisk wind, and booted the kickoff into the endzone, giving the Big Green the ball...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Turn Green Black and Blue | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

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